Results for "Search Collections"
Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved
- Date: June 30, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”
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Fishes and Frogs and Birds, OH MY!
- Date: May 26, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Cruriraja cadenati, 6 Oct 1959, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, USNM 196443. "][/caption] The Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, just launched nearly 2 million records on the Smithsonian Collections Search Center related to their vertebrate
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Staff Pick from the National Museum of the American Indian
- Date: December 11, 2009
- Description: To mark American Indian Heritage Month this year, staff members from the Photo Archive at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), filled us in on the history of the collections recently made available on the NMAI Collections Search website. As a follow-up, they are sharing their personal favorites from the archive. Today we hear from Lou Stancari,
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Archives Reveal How Cities Change: Photos of DC from the Early 1900s
- Date: August 25, 2010
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently digitized over 300 images of Washington, D.C. from the 1920s. Read more about the collection here, and check out the photographs, which are now available on Smithsonian Collections Search Center as well as on the Flickr Commons. Intern Amanda Kaufman writes about the collection, which she helped digitize this summer, below. How
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Telling the Story: Illuminating Native Heritage through Photography
- Date: November 23, 2009
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Let it rain...
- Date: April 21, 2010
- Description: To honor the incredibly wild and wet weather we have lately endured and enjoyed in Washington, DC, I took a quick search through the online Smithsonian collections for waterfalls. I imagine the water is running quite high—in nature, not I hope in the archives—this time of year. Several collections stood out, including the views made by 19th century photographs for expeditions
Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln!
- Date: February 12, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Slideshow of images related to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday, February 12.
A Monster Mash of Smithsonian History
- Date: October 31, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We got on Photoshop and we did the monster mash. It was definitely a graveyard smash. Enjoy your safe yet spooky Halloween!
Searching for Unicorns
- Date: July 18, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The discovery of a folder titled, "Unicorn," in collection at first brings excitement then disappointment as the unicorn in question was a unicorn fish, not the mythical unicorn.
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Office of the Secretary
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6847,size=300,left]The records of the Office of the Secretary are arguably the most important group of records in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, with the highest research value in the Archives. Researchers can conduct focused searches on records from the Office of the Secretary in the Archives' Collection Search. From the beginning of the
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Link Love: 11/26/2010
- Date: November 26, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
6 Questions Answered at the Archives
- Date: December 27, 2012
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian's new branding campaign, "Seriously Amazing," answers some interesting questions about the Smithsonian.